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Preparing students after graduation for the
demanding work required in the real world.
SMALL TALK
AHPS members come together to
discuss issues in their field.
Photo hy Travis Howell
HEALTHY SMILE
Students learn about the importance of health in their lives.
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HARD AT WORK
AHPS members take care of
paperwork at a meeting.
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The Allied Health
Professional Society's main
goal is to provide students
with information about
where to apply following
graduation.
"We are an information
source between the students
and professionals," President
of Allied Society Joey Hurt
said.
For example, Allied Health
Professional Society promoted the University of Texas
Health Science Research
Center.
"It is for students, and they
get to work one-on-one with
a doctor. They get to write an
abstract and get published in
the University of Texas
Medical Journal," Hurt said.
"It is very intense.
Students work for 40 hours a
week just like a real job,"
Hurt said.
This organization is fairly
new. Allied Health
Professional Society has a
high rate of students being
accepted into nursing school.
Allied Health Professional
Society has a guest speaker
that talks about different
issues the first and third
Tuesday of the month.
"Our goal is to get speakers that might come from different places in Texas," Hurt
said. "They speak about
where they graduated from,
different health careers and
the options students have."
"We also have an application workshop or an interview workshop. People who
actually conduct interviews
at the medical school come in
and have a one-on-one interview and critiques the students."
The members of Allied
Health Professional Society
are involved in the communi-
ty-„
"A number of our students
volunteer in the field that
they are trying to get into,"
Hurt said. "One of our members has been volunteering at
the Texas Children Hospital
for two years."
She added that one of her
best experiences with the
organization was going to the
University of Texas Medical
Branch in Galveston.
"We got to see where we
will be studying. It gave us a
feeling for what we need to
prepare for."
MINGLING
Students mingle before a AHPS
meeting at the UC
Photo hy Travis Howell
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